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WASHINGTON (AP)- President Donald Trump is denying his White House is chaotic but says more staff will leave as he seeks "perfection." Trump tweets Tuesday: "The new Fake News narrative is that there is CHAOS in the White House. Wrong! People will always come & go, and I want strong...

LONDON (Reuters)- Britain will respond robustly if it is proved that Russia was involved in an incident which left a former Russian double agent in a critical condition, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Tuesday. "There is much speculation about the disturbing incident in Salisbury,...

LONDON (Reuters)- Aid agencies in Britain have reported 80 cases where they have caused harm, or a risk of harm, since a sexual abuse scandal broke last month, a watchdog body said Monday at a summit to tackle sexual exploitation in the sector. Some reports related to allegations of...

BEIJING: Thousands of Chinese legislators erupted into enthusiastic applause on Monday over plans to give President Xi Jinping a lifetime mandate to mould the Asian giant into a global superpower. China's rubber-stamp parliament met in the imposing Great Hall of the People for an annual...

Officials in Poland say four people have died and 24 have been injured in the collapse of an apartment block in the western city of Poznan. A spokesman for the local firefighters, Slawomir Brandt, said 24 teams of firefighters were working in the rubble after the collapse Sunday of a...

North Korea is ready to go to war with the U.S. and will refuse talks with “any precondition,” according to Pyongyang’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday. “The U.S. should not misjudge our intention for dialogue,” a ministry spokesperson stated according to the North’s official...

Tens of thousands of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s supporters have gathered for a campaign rally at Moscow’s sprawling main sports complex. The crowd at the rally held two weeks before Russia’s presidential election filled the Luzhniki stadium, which has the capacity for more...

WASHINGTON (AP)- The Secret Service says a man shot himself outside the White House, and medical personnel are on the scene. President Donald Trump is not at the White House - he's in Florida, but is set to return later Saturday. The agency says in a Twitter post that there are...

CHICAGO, United States: A university student who fatally shot his parents on his school campus in the U.S. state of Michigan was arrested without incident after an hours-long manhunt, officials said early Saturday. The episode had put the Central Michigan University campus into lockdown...

BEVERLY HILLS, United States: Viola Davis is good in a pinch. Last year's best supporting actress Oscar-winner was sipping champagne at the annual Women in Film pre-Oscar cocktail event Friday night when the organization's president, Cathy Schulman, herself an Oscar-winner for "Crash,"...

MANILA: More than 100 drug suspects have been killed since Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the police to rejoin his "war on drugs," an official said Saturday. Duterte was elected in 2016 on a promise to eradicate drugs, and launched an unprecedented campaign in which --...

(AFP) - Insecurity in Mali "continues to rage" and is progressing toward the center of the country, according to an interim UN report. Members of Plateforme, an armed pro-government coalition, and the CMA rebel alliance, who were signatories to a 2015 peace deal, are seeing...

WASHINGTON (AP)- Citing mysterious "health attacks" in Havana, the United States said Friday it was making permanent its withdrawal of 60 percent of its diplomats from Cuba as investigations continue. Last October, the State Department ordered non-essential embassy personnel and the...

GENEVA (Reuters)- The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Friday it had suspended its work in the Nigerian town of Rann and evacuated national and international staff after a deadly raid. Suspected Boko Haram militants killed at least 11 people including three aid workers...

WASHINGTON (AP)- White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is trying to explain his defense of a former aide accused of abusing two ex-wives. He says he made supportive comments before he knew of an accusation of physical abuse. Kelly told reporters Friday that the White House did not...

MOSCOW: It sounds like a thriller: nearly half a ton of cocaine was hidden in bags at the Russian Embassy's school in Buenos Aires before being loaded on a Russian government plane bound for Moscow. Yet that's exactly what happened in a recent sting run by Russia and Argentina to nab a...

A German security official says the immediate threat posed by a cyberattack on the government's secure computer network was averted soon after it was detected. Following a report by news agency dpa Wednesday, the government acknowledged its network had been infiltrated but downplayed...

BERLIN (AP)- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken with President Donald Trump about the situation in Syria and Russia's newly announced weapons systems. Merkel's office said Friday they spoke late Thursday, agreeing on the need for Syrian government forces and their Russian and...